Advice For Greening Your Life

So you care about the environment, you say. You turn off lights when you leave the room. You don't brush your teeth while the tap is running. You buy organic foods where possible. What else can one do? All lot, it turns out. Even though we may care about the environment, it is easy to fall into the trap of believing that your choices are insignificant in the grander scheme of things. The everyday choices that we make as individuals have its combined impact on the planet. Your buying power, personal choices and lifestyle changes have their impact, whether positive...

Read more

Carbon Tax offset by Lower Prices

It is said by a leading Consultant that wholesale power prices have been driven down due to increased competition between electricity generators fighting for a lowering market.  This is helping to offset a great deal, if not all of the carbon tax effect. Principal Consultant Hugh Saddler from Pitt & Sherry states that figures in the year to August for the demand of power across the National Electricity Market that serves the eastern states and South Australia have fallen another 1.4 terra-watt-hours compared with the 12 months to July. Electricity use peaked in 2006-7 on a per capital basis.  It...

Read more